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I am running on CentOS 5 distribution without adding any updates from CentOS. I am using the lustre 1.6.4.1 kernel and software. I have two NICs that run though different switches. I have the lustre options in my modprobe.conf to look like this: options lnet networks=tcp0(eth1,eth0) My MGS seems to be only listening on the first interface however. When I try and ping the 1st interface (eth1)

I notice that raid6 is recommended in the manual. eg. "...RAID6 is a must." http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/DynamicHTML-11-1.html which I found a bit surprising given that in Dec ''06 Peter Braam said on this list "Some of our customers experienced data corruption in the RAID6 layer.", and recommending the CFS optimised md raid5 path through the kernel. I can''t see any patche...

hi I''m in need of help to proceed in my project which is titled,"Performance improvements for Patchless lustre client" can u tell me the step by step approach in setting up a patchless lustre client in a high end system. Waiting 4 ur reply thanks and regards, Ashok Bharat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

In 1.6.0, when creating a MDT, you could specify multiple --mgsnode options and it would failover between them. 1.6.3 only seems to take the last one and --mgsnode=192.168.1.252 at o2ib:192.168.1.253 at o2ib doesn''t seem to failover to the other node. Any ideas how to get around this? Robert Robert LeBlanc College of Life Sciences Computer Support Brigham Young University leblanc at